Software Engineer II, AI works with cross-functional teams and customers to understand business requirements and translates into technical specifications. Discovers the true requirements underlying feature requests and recommends alternative technical approaches. Partners with cross-functional technical teams to launch projects and provide ongoing technical support. Collaborates with management to identify opportunities to streamline technology processes and develop new procedures that support the business unit/department.
Responsibilities- Establishes a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance.
- Ensures sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle.
- Provides rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes.
- Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services.
- Innovates and drives continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer or employee experiences and enterprise objectives.
- Participates in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based solutions.
- Develops and maintains deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of experience with Generative AI concepts, including embeddings, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and tokenization
- 3+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- 4+ years of experience with DevOps pipelines, including Git-based repositories (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket), static and dynamic code analysis, Infrastructure as Code (e.g., AWS CloudFormation), and deployment strategies such as blue/green deployments
- 2+ years of experience with agentic systems, including various agent architectures, frameworks such as LangGraph, orchestration patterns, and building/hosting agents (e.g., orchestrator agents, agents as tools)
- 3+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring large-scale distributed and parallel systems using cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda, EKS, S3)
- 4+ years of hands-on programming experience with languages such as Python, Java, Rust, SQL, and/or Node.js
AARP will not sponsor an employment visa for this position at this time.
Additional Requirements - Regular and reliable job attendance.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships.
- Independent judgment in evaluation options to make sound decisions.
- Home office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate home environment noise.
Compensation and BenefitsAARP offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k); 100% company-funded pension plan; health, dental, and vision plans; life insurance; paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave; performance-based and peer-based recognition and tuition reimbursement.
